{"id":157912,"date":"2022-09-24T21:58:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T19:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=157912"},"modified":"2022-09-24T23:50:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T21:50:41","slug":"novak-back-to-tour-with-a-win-over-tiafoe-teams-up-with-berrettini-in-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-back-to-tour-with-a-win-over-tiafoe-teams-up-with-berrettini-in-doubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak back to Tour with two wins for Team Europe at Laver Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak made a winning return to Tour on Saturday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lavercup.com\/scores-results\/2022-results-leaderboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laver Cup<\/a>, defeating Frances Tiafoe 6-1, 6-3 to give Team Europe a 6-4 lead against Team World.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic was close to his best on Saturday night in London at the Laver Cup, as he brushed aside American Frances Tiafoe 6-2, 6-3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was Novak&#8217;s first match since winning The Championships in July.<\/p>\n<p>The former world no.1 was backed by Bjorn Borg as well as the rest of the Big Four: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star played with power and precision. He stormed to a 4-1 lead in the first set, and another break followed. He closed out the first set 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>In the second set, Djokovic broke in the opening game and at 5-3 he broke again to take victory in 73 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In the first match of the day, Matteo Berrettini put Team Europe in front against Team World, beating Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-6 (11), 4-6, 10-7.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Fritz from Team World then levelled the competition, moving past Team Europe\u2019s Cameron Norrie 6-1, 4-6, 10-8.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the final match of the day, Novak teamed up with Berrettini against Alex de Minaur and Jack Sock. The Serbian\/Italian duo recorded a 7-6, 6-2 triumph to give Team Europe an 8-4 lead against Team World in London.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first team to reach 13 points wins the Laver Cup. Each win on Sunday is worth three points.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak made a winning return to Tour on Saturday at the Laver Cup, defeating Frances Tiafoe 6-1, 6-3 to give Team Europe a 6-4 lead against Team World in London. Two hours later, he scored another two points, recording a 7-6, 6-2 win in pair with Matteo Berrettini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":157908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157912"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157934,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157912\/revisions\/157934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}